Publication

Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses

McCarthy, Alma
Garavan, Thomas
Holland, Denise
Bohle Carbonell, Katerina
Virtanen, Turo
O Kane, Paula
van Wart, Montgomery
Citation
McCarthy, Alma, Garavan, Thomas, Holland, Denise, Bohle Carbonell, Katerina, Virtanen, Turo, O Kane, Paula, & Van Wart, Montgomery. (2022). Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses. Public Management Review, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/14719037.2022.2133160
Abstract
Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox theory. Multiple institutional logics and institutional complexity create tensions, which TM actors must respond to and manage. We identify an important interplay of four institutional logics with the dominance of the professional logic acting as a unifying function to respond to tensions in TM implementation. We add to the emerging literature on day-to-day responses to competing institutional logics and public sector TM.
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Publisher DOI
10.1080/14719037.2022.2133160
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)